- 1收好、妥善放置（飛機上「請將行李放置於上方置物櫃」用的就是這個字）
To stow something is to pack it away tidily into a space, out of the way, until you need it again. Two ideas live inside it at once, and both matter: it is put away, and it is put away and securely, in a place chosen for it. If you shove your bag under the seat in a hurry you have not really stowed it; if you fold it and slide it into the right space so it will not move, you have.
It comes from the sea, and it still smells of it. Sailors stow cargo in the hold and stow the sails; the word is everywhere in ships and boats, and it spread from there to planes and trains. That is why the one place every will certainly meet it is on an : "Please stow your baggage in the overhead lockers" and "tray tables stowed for landing". In that announcement voice it is completely ordinary. In everyday home conversation it is a bit formal — you would more likely say put away or pack away — though "stow it in the garage" sounds perfectly natural to plenty of people.
Two phrases are worth knowing. A is someone who hides on a ship or plane to travel without paying — the person who has stowed themselves away. And "stow it!" is old slang for "be quiet, stop that", which you will only meet in older books or films.
The noun form, meaning a place, is not something you need — you will only ever see it inside old English place names ending in -stow.
組成The verb comes from Old English stōwian, which meant to hold back or keep in place — the idea of stopping something from moving around. Behind it sits Old English stōw, a place. So at its root, to stow is to put something in its place and keep it there. German stauen and Dutch stuwen are the same word.
同家族的字
- stowawaybuilt directly from stow away — a hidden traveller who has stowed themselves on board
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Stowname/ˈstaʊ/
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A surname.
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A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4544).
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A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8881).
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The alternative spelling of Stowe in Shropshire, England.
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A small town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
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A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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A city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.
stownoun詞源 1/stəʊ/
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rareA place, stead.
stowverb詞源 2/stəʊ/
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To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
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To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
- Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.
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To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
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To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
- Ar.[…]The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep :[…]
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obsoleteslangTo cease; to stop doing something.
- But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.
- “Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”
stowintj詞源 2/stəʊ/
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obsoleteA cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.
- His seconde hawke wexyd gery […] on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest. The fauconer then was prest, Came runnynge with a dow, And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’ But she wold not bow.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。